In the heavens, people become emperors by being bad.

Chapter 647 [A Decisive Strike is Necessary]

"Young Ye is already preparing to settle accounts with his family." The Black Emperor coughed lightly, subtly sowing discord, "He wants to eliminate the cancer within the Tianxuan Holy Land."

"Settle the score?" Lin Xian sneered. "Who does he want to settle scores with!"

"Anyway, it's not me, and I don't care about the Heavenly Heart Mark." The Black Emperor raised his hands in surrender. These days, he has been following Duan De and causing trouble in the Underworld, and he rarely gets involved in Tianxuan's affairs anymore.

"What would a mere Ancient Sacred Body want the Heavenly Heart Mark for? This is no ordinary Sacred Body; we must strike hard!"

Lin Xian realized the seriousness of the problem, and his expression became solemn. A fully accomplished Saint Body can rival an Emperor. Even if it is a Saint Body that has achieved enlightenment through alternative means, it is only at the Emperor level in terms of combat power, comparable to a top Emperor. Ultimately, it is within an acceptable range. A sufficient number of Supreme Beings can overwhelm it.

But if one becomes an emperor, it's a different story. He becomes the ultimate father of the forbidden zone of life, which brings about a qualitative change. Killing a supreme being is no different from slaughtering a dog.

Is that becoming an emperor? That's proving oneself to the Heavenly Emperor in one step!
When a Holy Body Heavenly Emperor descends to the mortal realm, even the Undying Heavenly Emperor would have to suffer two slaps, let alone Holy Master Lin.

According to the Black Emperor's confession, Ye Fan took the bottle of the Heavenly Emperor's essence blood that they found in the Ancient Yaochi back then, and then went to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone to consult the former Great Accomplishment Holy Body. He is really not far from the Ninth Heaven.

"You bastard! Those were meant for Ye Tianxuan, and he actually stole them from his own son..." Lin Xian was furious and scolded Ye Fan for being shameless, even stealing his own son's cultivation supplies.

Black Emperor's lips twitched. Even a dog couldn't stand this double standard. It coughed and said, "It seems you took the essence blood of the Great Accomplishment Holy Body from fifty cities."

"That's not the same!" Lin Xian said indignantly, "In a few years, a Great Perfection Holy Body will appear, and we can make up for it later. Where can we find a Heavenly Emperor to draw blood from now on?"

"The Holy Body Heavenly Emperor is still a Heavenly Emperor, isn't he?" the Black Emperor muttered to himself. Perhaps the blood of his father, Ye Fan, had a greater effect on Ye Tianxuan than that of his teacher, Wu Shi.

In an instant, Lin Xian's gaze sharpened, staring intently at the Black Emperor, and he sneered, "Good, good, good, so that's what you were planning. No wonder that bottle of Great Dao Blood was lost. I guarded against you day and night, but I still couldn't stop you!"

After returning from the Ancient Jade Pool, Lin Xian handed over the blood of the Primordial Emperor to the Black Emperor. Although this dog was unreliable, he was willing to risk his life for the matter of the Innate Sacred Body and Dao Embryo, and was trustworthy.

I never expected that the Black Emperor would do something like this.

Lin Xian shouted, "Just how much kickback did you take? You even handed over the blood of the Beginningless Emperor!"

"Woof, woof, woof! How dare you question my character!" The Black Emperor roared in fury, solemnly swearing that he hadn't taken a single drop of blood.

"Character? Do you even have that kind of quality, you dog?" Lin Xian rolled her eyes as she looked at the immortal gold in the Black Emperor's hand.

The Black Emperor quickly stuffed the immortal gold back into his pocket, coughed lightly, and said, "Times have changed..."

The Heavenly Court is teeming with experts and supreme beings, with the Empress and the Amitabha Emperor in charge. It possesses numerous celestial artifacts and imperial weapons to conquer all realms, and is no longer afraid of ordinary dark disturbances.

Even if a few supreme beings wanted to emerge, they were directly suppressed and killed. The Lord of Reincarnation and the Emperor of Prisons met a bloody end. The destruction of the two forbidden zones established the supreme prestige of the Heavenly Court.

In this situation, the Great Emperor Wushi's backup plan was no longer the only effective tool to quell the turmoil.

Therefore, the Black Emperor set his sights on that bottle of Great Dao Blood, intending to use 80% of it to forge a living Supreme Being for Ye Fan, and the remaining 20% ​​for Ye Tianxuan's cultivation to help her break through the Quasi-Emperor barrier.

"If you hadn't given the Heavenly Emperor's son such a monstrous Creation Source Eye, would I have needed to use the Great Emperor's essence blood?"

"This is all your fault!"

Hei Huangci said sternly that he did this for the sake of fairness and justice, putting the two Heavenly Princes on the same starting line.

"Ye Tianxuan and the Crown Prince are on equal footing, but what about me?!"

Lin Xian was at a loss. The Ye family's foundation in this life was incredibly solid. They had already established themselves in the Divine Forbidden Domain and possessed an invincible aura that was unstoppable. If they were to actually become an emperor, that would be disastrous.

"Be more alert, don't lose face. What are you afraid of, an Ancient Sacred Body, when you're just a Chaos Body?"

The Black Emperor chuckled and exclaimed passionately, "Think of the Empress, think of that chaotic being from the mythological era, who defied the Heavenly Venerable and wrote an epic and a legend!"

“Even the Empress’s first incarnation might not have been effective…” Lin Xian said quietly.

The first incarnation of the Devouring Demon Emperor was a flawed chaotic body, not a flawless one. It was only in his second incarnation that a true chaotic divine embryo was born.

In theory, the first incarnation of the ruthless person is similar to the ultimate version of Yao Guang; he might be stronger, but not by much.

In contrast, Ye Fan has been continuously strengthening himself in this life. He already possesses the aura of a supreme being at the seventh level of the Heavenly Realm, and who knows, he might be able to challenge a supreme being on his own at the eighth level.

"It's very simple, just attain enlightenment."

Black Emperor coughed lightly, shook his head, and lived up to his name as a strategist, offering nothing but bad ideas.

"If achieving enlightenment were so easy, I wouldn't have to worry about this so much."

Lin Xian frowned deeply. Not to mention the Chaos Emperor, even the Eighth Heaven level was extremely difficult, and could be called the Supreme Tribulation.

In the mythological era, a being at the eighth level of the Chaos Body could fight a bloody battle with a flawless Heavenly Venerable. This was genuine supreme combat power, and breaking through to this level was extremely difficult.

Ye Fan was able to break through the eighth level of the Heavenly Realm with the help of the Heavenly Emperor's essence blood, which originated from the same source.

Where can Lin Xian find the same source of imperial blood? The one in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone is indeed a genuine Chaos Heavenly Emperor, but he has a few minor issues.

If the Empress were to ask Lin Xian what he wanted his essence blood for, Lin Xian couldn't very well reply, "I want your essence blood, and then I'll go and fight your brother's reincarnation."

"Wang Bo is alive, but he has no physical body. Whether he is even on the Big Dipper Emperor Star is questionable..."

Lin Xian was at a loss, so he simply abandoned the Heavenly Court's affairs and traveled alone across the Eastern Wilderness, both to clear his mind and to search for the whereabouts of the Chaos Body King Bo.

He would occasionally stroll around the entrance to the forbidden zone of life, pick a few cans of Enlightenment Tea Trees, and collect two buckets of Divine Spring Water, which enraged the Old Supreme, who then unleashed a murderous aura.

Lin Xian didn't care at all. Now that his Chaos Body was about to be formed, no one could do anything to him unless the Supreme True Body was born.

But the path to immortality is nearing its end. Who would be willing to reappear now and waste their life essence, having sealed themselves as a supreme being for a million years?

The several supreme beings in the restricted area could only snort coldly and utter a few harsh words.

"What's wrong with eating some of your food? This is no ordinary supreme being; he's not even afraid of the Heavenly Court. We must strike hard!"

Lin Xian retorted, showing no fear in the face of a supreme being.

The Supreme Being of the Forbidden Zone was furious. It was always them who threatened others, when did it become the case that beings from the outside world threatened the Forbidden Zone? This was simply turning the tables.

"On the path to immortality, settle all karmic debts!" ​​an ancient emperor roared, his killing intent surging.

"What are you so smug about, a bunch of self-inflicted wounds?" Lin Xian laughed loudly. "Don't put on airs like a Heavenly Emperor in front of me. You are no longer the emperors and sovereigns you once were!"

"This is our era, this is our golden age, not yours!"

The sound echoed in the forbidden zone, resounding in the hearts of one supreme being after another. These once invincible and cosmic powerhouses turned their faces ashen, pale, and then flushed, yet they all felt a sense of sorrow rising within them.

They've gotten old, really old.

In their youth, if anyone dared to insult them, they would fight back, even if it was a true immortal descending to earth, let alone a chaotic being.

Lin Xian waited at the entrance of the forbidden zone for a while, but ultimately no supreme being emerged. He shook his head, casually uttered a sentence, and then left with his immortal tea and divine spring water. "The true emperors are all dead!"

The destructive power of a single sentence is more terrifying than that of an ultimate imperial weapon. Within the forbidden zone of life, there was an indomitable supreme being who remained silent for a long time before letting out a long sigh. Then, he looked up at the sky, peering into the heavens and the earth, and uttered a question.

"Who controls the rise and fall of the nine heavens and ten earths?"

Who is the emperor of this era?

"Is it a Chaos Body, a Sacred Body, or perhaps..."

"Gai Jiuyou!"

Lin Xian left the Eastern Wilderness, covering a million miles in a single step, traversing the void, and arrived at the Central Continent. Here, dragon energy surged, ancestral veins converged, and the essence of the Big Dipper was condensed. It was evolved from the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm of the Chaos Body.

Gai Jiuyou's Daoist temple is in the Qinling Mountains, near the Immortal Transformation Pool. The blue lotus has already become an emperor and left. He lives next to the Holy Spirit of the Central Plains Dragon Vein.

"Immortal Venerable, please follow me."

A fairy in white appeared, stunning the mortal world with beauty surpassing even the holy maidens of great sects. She was Xia Jiuyou, the once arrogant and willful little girl who had become a beauty of her generation, making people marvel at the wonder of time.

"Call him Holy Lord, not Immortal Venerable."

Lin Xian chuckled, casually ruffled Xia Jiuyou's hair, and then, under the girl's resentful gaze, handed her the Enlightenment Tea leaves and Divine Spring Water, asking her to brew the tea.

The Azure Emperor Gai Jiuyou sat cross-legged, opposite him was the divine consciousness incarnation of the Dragon Vein Holy Spirit, a man wearing a nine-dragon crown, as majestic as an emperor, whose attire was somewhat similar to that of the emperor of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty.

"So many years have passed, and you have not yet achieved great success, fellow Daoist."

Lin Xian clicked his tongue and discovered that Qinling Holy Spirit was still only at the eighth level of the Heavenly Realm, one step away from the ninth level.

"Is two hundred years a long time?"

The Holy Spirit of Qinling was slightly taken aback, then said quietly, "We Holy Spirits have been nurtured for millions of years, unlike you humans who can achieve enlightenment in a few hundred years."

There is a difference of tens of thousands of times between them. If the Qinling Holy Spirit wants to achieve great success, it will take another ten to twenty thousand years.

"He is an anomaly, even among humans, he is a freak."

Gai Jiuyou regained his youth and his mindset became more lively. At this moment, he couldn't help but complain, "He doesn't seem like a human."

Reaching the threshold of becoming an emperor at the age of one thousand is already a prodigy of the human race, a rare imperial powerhouse throughout history, but compared to the guy in front of him, he is still a small fry.

"Senior is joking. You have lived a second life. If you are young, you are not even a hundred years old. You are still in your prime."

Lin Xian smiled slightly and stated the purpose of his trip: "Would you be willing to retrace the Emperor's Path?"

The Heavenly Court lacks a Great Emperor to suppress the path to immortality, and Gai Jiuyou clearly has the potential to do so.

A Nine Netherworld Emperor paired with five or six Heavenly Court Supremes—this combination, while not comparable to a true Heavenly Emperor, is enough to suppress the Dark Turmoil and annihilate any forbidden zone.

"The Imperial Road?"

Gai Jiuyou smiled slightly, took a sip of the brewed enlightenment tea, and then slowly said, "I have fulfilled my wish by killing the Lord of Reincarnation. Why should there be another Gai Jiuyou in the human world?"

"Senior, won't you reconsider?" Lin Xian persuaded, saying sincerely, "Senior, you have attained enlightenment, and on behalf of future generations of geniuses, I have no objection."

Xia Jiuyou and Qinling Holy Spirit on the side were speechless and couldn't help but shake their heads. "It's easy for a chaotic being to talk like this. Of course, we have no objections."

Even if someone becomes an emperor first, the Chaos Body can still defy the heavens and prove its Dao, unhindered by the Heavenly Heart Mark.

However, if Gai Jiuyou becomes an emperor first, then the third person to become an emperor will be in trouble, as they will have to face the suppression of two Heavenly Heart Marks.

The fact that a Nine Nether Emperor and a Chaos Emperor joined forces was enough to make anyone's blood run cold.

"I had some thoughts before, but after meeting fellow Daoists Chuanying and Ningfei, I have other ideas."

Gai Jiuyou paused, his expression turning solemn as he said, "There is no immortal divine dynasty, nor is there an immortal power. The Heavenly Court can suppress the turmoil of this era, but what about the future? If there are no enlightened beings, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths will face another great calamity."

"Gai Jiuyou's wish in his first life has been fulfilled. As for the Heavenly Court's First Divine General in his second life, let him remain in the future, like the Great Accomplished Holy Body, to protect all living beings."

This is Gai Jiuyou's reason: not to prove his own path, but to seek a glimmer of hope for all living beings.

The alternative path to enlightenment differs from that of the Great Emperors and Ancient Sovereigns. It does not require the imprint of the Heavenly Heart, nor does it require self-severance. As long as some longevity substances are found and mixed into the divine source, it can be sealed for eternity and exist for millions of years.

"The Heavenly Court is incredibly powerful in this lifetime. It doesn't need to seal itself off; it will wipe out all forbidden zones in this very lifetime."

Lin Xian's resounding voice expressed his lofty ambitions: to bring peace to the world, clear away all obstacles for those who come after, and restore a bright and clear world to the heavens and the earth.

"You can't completely eradicate those in restricted areas."

Gai Jiuyou's eyes were deep, as if he had seen through human nature. He sighed and said, "The dragon slayer will eventually become the dragon himself."

Even if the Heavenly Court can solve the problem of one lifetime, it cannot break the situation of ten thousand lifetimes.

As long as the Dharma-ending Age continues, as long as the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the Great Emperor's Dao Fruit remain, sooner or later a Supreme Being will walk the forbidden path.

Darkness and turmoil are bound to return; this is a selfish choice of human nature and a struggle for life.

To break the deadlock, at least the immense power of a Celestial King is needed to nourish the universe. To reach an environment like the Celestial Realm, a three-digit number of Celestial Kings is required, or perhaps a Quasi-Celestial Emperor could directly create the Celestial Realm.

Even if a mortal immortal wants to become a quasi-immortal emperor, it will take an incredibly long time. Above the heavens, a quasi-immortal emperor is also known as a Dao ancestor, so one can imagine how difficult it is to achieve such a Dao fruit.

Lin Xian sighed and bid farewell to Gai Jiuyou to find the First Divine General Chuan Ying. This divine general had sealed himself for a million years and had no intention of continuing to do so, but he also did not want to become an emperor.

"Now that the Emperor has returned, I will protect him and give him the opportunity."

Chuan Ying was very determined and stood on Ye Fan's side, persuading Lin Xian to wait a while. She suggested that Ye Fan should become an emperor first, and then lead Lin Xian to become an emperor, so as to realize the grand plan of all the emperors of the Heavenly Court crossing over together and gathering the sect to become immortals.

Lin Xian was speechless. Chuan Ying hadn't learned much of the Emperor's divine abilities, but he had inherited the skill of making empty promises perfectly.

After visiting Chuanying and Gai Jiuyou, Lin Xian successively visited four supreme beings: Shakyamuni, Laozi Li Er, Yandi Shennong, and Huangdi Xuanyuan.

However, the result was far from ideal. These four wanted to become emperors, but the Great Dao of their past lives blocked their path. Even Shakyamuni, who was in the best situation, needed to be refined for several hundred years.

"If you're slow on one step, you'll be slow on every step..."

Lin Xian sighed helplessly and returned to the Feng family in the Eastern Wilderness. There was no hope of obtaining the Chaos Emperor's blood. He would see if he could dig out some of the Fuxi Emperor's blood or the Nuwa Emperor's blood from the Feng family.

Just then, the Holy Lord of the Feng family came to report that the Supreme Being of the Golden Crow Clan had arrived uninvited.

(End of this chapter)